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n Deutsches Museum Sixth floor VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Fifth floor
This is one of the oldest and largest museums of Practical Information
technology and engineering in the world, founded in Fourth floor Museumsinsel 1. Tel (089) 21 791.
1903 by engineer Oskar von Miller. The collections Open 9am–5pm daily (some
exhibits may be closed during
cover most aspects of technology, including its renovations). & (children under
greatest achievements, and the museum also has one 6 free). 0 - 7
of the world’s largest technology libraries. Over the ∑ deutsches-museum.de
next few years, the museum will undergo major Exterior of the Museum Transport
The building combines Neo-
renovations, improvements and a new design, so Baroque, Neo-Classical and  Isartor. v 17, 18. @ 131.
that by 2025, it will rank among the world’s most modern elements.  Fraunhoferstr.
advanced museums of technology.
Third Telecommunications
floor The Philips camera of
Decorative Arts 1967 was one of the
This plate with the portrait of a first colour television
lady from Ludwig I’s “gallery cameras in the world.
of beauty” is an example of
reproduction techniques
applied to porcelain. The
ceramics section illustrates
the development of faience,
stoneware and porcelain.

Second floor

Key to Floorplan
Design and Technology
Centre for New Technology
Kids’ Kingdom
Physics and Chemistry
. Musical Instruments Musical Instruments
The keyboard instruments Decorative Arts
room contains the earliest
southern German organ and a Time, Weights and Measures
17th-century inlaid harpsichord. Automation, Microelectronics
. Physics and Telecommunications
Galileo’s workshop features a large collection First floor Astronomy
of the scientific equipment used by the famous Agriculture and Geodesy
astronomer and physicist to establish the basic
laws of mechanics. Aviation
Miscellaneous
. Pharmaceutics
Among the exhibits in
this section is a model
of a human cell
magnified 350,000
times and graphically
illustrating how
it functions.

Museum Guide Kids’ Kingdom
Main entrance This is an area where children
The museum’s 20,000 exhibits are displayed over seven floors. between the ages of 3 and 8 can learn
While those on the lower floors include heavy vehicles and sections about science and technology in a fun and
on chemistry, physics, scientific instruments and aeronautics, imaginative way. There are many exciting
those on the middle floors relate to the decorative arts. The upper Ground floor exhibits, including a giant guitar, a fire
floors are devoted to astronomy, computers and microelectronics. engine and an electric light cinema.
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp495–6 and pp517–18

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